Landesa Featured in O Magazine
July 10, 2013 -- O Magazine featured Landesa's attorney and land tenure specialist, Melany Grout, in their August issue on newsstands now. The profile focuses on our project in West Bengal working with girls, community groups, and the government in India to keep girls in school and reduce child marriage and trafficking.
G8 Panel Elevates Issue of Land Rights
Landesa President and CEO, Tim Hanstad, presented at a high-level G8 pre-summit panel in London on trade, tax, and transparency. In a meeting dedicated to land, Hanstad made the case for secure land rights to influential world leaders from heads of state, businesses, and civil society. At the event, several African countries made commitments to multi-year partnerships with donors that focused on land rights - Landesa is in negotiations to be involved in some of these partnerships.
Four ways to help Myanmar’s rural poor
June 3, 2013 -- Landesa founder Roy Prosterman writes about the necessity of land rights for farmers in Myanmar. Featured in the World Economic Forum Blog, Prosterman describes four factors that remain crucial to improving the lives of the rural poor.
Major Report Recommends Land Rights for Women & Men in Global Development Goals
May 30, 2013 -- Thanks in part to extensive advocacy efforts by Landesa, secure land rights for women and men features prominently in a report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. The report explicitly recognizes rights to land and property as critical to achieving the goals of eradicating poverty and achieving gender equality.
New bill in India would give homesteads to millions
May 18, 2013 - The Right to Homestead Bill could help millions in India by providing homestead plots to virtually all landless rural families across the country. Landesa founder Roy Prosterman writes in the Times of India about this crucial moment to address the principal cause of rural poverty in India - landlessness.